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Hierarchical clustering of networks consists in finding a tree of communities, such that lower levels of the hierarchy reveal finer-grained community structures. There are two main classes of algorithms tackling this problem. Divisive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Maximilien Dreveton , Daichi Kuroda , Matthias Grossglauser , Patrick Thiran

One of the main challenges for hierarchical clustering is how to appropriately identify the representative points in the lower level of the cluster tree, which are going to be utilized as the roots in the higher level of the cluster tree…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-16 Wen-Bo Xie , Zhen Liu , Jaideep Srivastava

This work proposes a hierarchical clustering algorithm for high-dimensional datasets using the cyclic space of reversible finite cellular automata. In cellular automaton (CA) based clustering, if two objects belong to the same cycle, they…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Baby C. J. , Kamalika Bhattacharjee

Recently, Hierarchical Clustering (HC) has been considered through the lens of optimization. In particular, two maximization objectives have been defined. Moseley and Wang defined the \emph{Revenue} objective to handle similarity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Danny Vainstein , Vaggos Chatziafratis , Gui Citovsky , Anand Rajagopalan , Mohammad Mahdian , Yossi Azar

In this paper, we study parallel algorithms for the correlation clustering problem, where every pair of two different entities is labeled with similar or dissimilar. The goal is to partition the entities into clusters to minimize the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Nairen Cao , Shang-En Huang , Hsin-Hao Su

Comparison-based learning addresses the problem of learning when, instead of explicit features or pairwise similarities, one only has access to comparisons of the form: \emph{Object $A$ is more similar to $B$ than to $C$.} Recently, it has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Aishik Mandal , Michaël Perrot , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

Hierarchical clustering is a fundamental task often used to discover meaningful structures in data, such as phylogenetic trees, taxonomies of concepts, subtypes of cancer, and cascades of particle decays in particle physics. Typically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Craig S. Greenberg , Sebastian Macaluso , Nicholas Monath , Ji-Ah Lee , Patrick Flaherty , Kyle Cranmer , Andrew McGregor , Andrew McCallum

This paper studies the Graph-Connected Clique-Partitioning Problem (GCCP), a clustering optimization model in which units are characterized by both individual and relational data. This problem, introduced by Benati et al. (2017) under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Stefano Benati , Diego Ponce , Justo Puerto , Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía

Finding a set of nested partitions of a dataset is useful to uncover relevant structure at different scales, and is often dealt with a data-dependent methodology. In this paper, we introduce a general two-step methodology for model-based…

Computation · Statistics 2021-04-22 Etienne Côme , Nicolas Jouvin , Pierre Latouche , Charles Bouveyron

We propose a new method for hierarchical clustering based on the optimisation of a cost function over trees of limited depth, and we derive a message--passing method that allows to solve it efficiently. The method and algorithm can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Bailly-Bechet , S. Bradde , A. Braunstein , A. Flaxman , L. Foini , R. Zecchina

We present memory-efficient and scalable algorithms for kernel methods used in machine learning. Using hierarchical matrix approximations for the kernel matrix the memory requirements, the number of floating point operations, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Elizaveta Rebrova , Gustavo Chavez , Yang Liu , Pieter Ghysels , Xiaoye Sherry Li

We introduce a novel statistical significance-based approach for clustering hierarchical data using semi-parametric linear mixed-effects models designed for responses with laws in the exponential family (e.g., Poisson and Bernoulli). Within…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-04 Alessandra Ragni , Chiara Masci , Francesca Ieva , Anna Maria Paganoni

A single-commodity congestion approximator for a graph is a compact data structure that approximately predicts the edge congestion required to route any set of single-commodity flow demands in a network. A hierarchical congestion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Monika Henzinger , Robin Münk , Harald Räcke

The most widely used internal measure for clustering evaluation is the silhouette coefficient, whose naive computation requires a quadratic number of distance calculations, which is clearly unfeasible for massive datasets. Surprisingly,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Federico Altieri , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Fabio Vandin

Several clustering frameworks with interactive (semi-supervised) queries have been studied in the past. Recently, clustering with same-cluster queries has become popular. An algorithm in this setting has access to an oracle with full…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Barna Saha , Sanjay Subramanian

Hierarchical clustering remains a fundamental challenge in data mining, particularly when dealing with large-scale datasets where traditional approaches fail to scale effectively. Recent Chameleon-based algorithms - Chameleon2, M-Chameleon,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Priyanshu Singh , Kapil Ahuja

Correlation clustering is perhaps the most natural formulation of clustering. Given $n$ objects and a pairwise similarity measure, the goal is to cluster the objects so that, to the best possible extent, similar objects are put in the same…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-19 Francesco Bonchi , David García-Soriano , Konstantin Kutzkov

Many clustering algorithms are guided by certain cost functions such as the widely-used $k$-means cost. These algorithms divide data points into clusters with often complicated boundaries, creating difficulties in explaining the clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Moses Charikar , Lunjia Hu

We introduce the aggregated clustering problem, where one is given $T$ instances of a center-based clustering task over the same $n$ points, but under different metrics. The goal is to open $k$ centers to minimize an aggregate of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Jonathan Conroy , Ankita Sarkar

Partial orders and directed acyclic graphs are commonly recurring data structures that arise naturally in numerous domains and applications and are used to represent ordered relations between entities in the domains. Examples are task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Daniel Bakkelund